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  • 03-06-2011 3:48am
    #1
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭


    Just curious really.....

    What size is 11 years (or 13 years if going by first thread) of Boards.ie backed up on a server? In Gigabytes/terabytes, is there a fiqure?
    Details
    Type Company
    Number 319114
    Name BOARDS.IE LIMITED
    Address 3RD FLOOR
    LATTIN HALL
    GOLDEN LANE
    DUBLIN 8
    Registered 24/01/2000
    Status Normal

    Effective date: 24/01/2000
    Last AR Date 30/09/2010
    Next AR Date 30/09/2011
    Last Accounts to Date 31/12/2009
    Edit-->The first Link isin't working properly even though the address is right when you hover over it:confused:, anyway just put boards.ie in the Company search box.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    #2
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,957 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I remember someone posting up before that it was really small as in double figures megabytes.

    I never did follow up on that to find out if it was just a joke or not. Its hard to know because most of whats on here is text based, although hosting pictures on Boards has become more common so I'd imagine it'd be a lot higher.


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    #3
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    I remember back when we hit the 1gig limit, and that was years ago. I think the usertable (the table that stores usernames, passwords and emails I imagine) is over a gig.

    Whoever said it was in the double figure megabyte range was wrong!


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    #4
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    No one should ever need more than 128k of storage


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    #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    <
    this big
    >


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    #6
    Dunny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Bigger than yours.;):D


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    #7
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    In 2000, Cloud Boards was then rebranded for a more general audience. Limitations in what organizations could register prevented private individuals from registering vanity or custom domains. Breslin had previously been unsuccessful in registering the domain cloud.ie with the Irish domain registry.

    Murphy entered a bet with Breslin that he could successfully register a domain for a rebranded web forum. Murphy renamed his company Spin Solutions to Boards for a day, registered the paperwork with the Irish domain registrar for boards.ie, and was granted the domain.

    Q.E.D


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    #8
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    The database is roughly 28GB on disk.

    The compressed backups are about 6.6GB.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    And here is the growth in the volume of posts (measured in MB/month) since January 2000:




    162173.png


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    #10
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,183 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Neato. Do you guys run SSD?


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    #11
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    What went wrong in late 2006?


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Overheal wrote: »
    Neato. Do you guys run SSD?

    Nope. The database machines use 15k RPM drives. The last time we bought database machines SSDs were silly money. They're still very, very expensive.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Spear wrote: »
    What went wrong in late 2006?

    It's before my time, so it's hard to know the exact reasons, but the uptime and speed wasn't exactly fantastic back then. Those factors have a huge impact on the growth of a site.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Oh and BTW the above graph is only for text. Attachments are not included.


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    #15
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,183 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Spear wrote: »
    What went wrong in late 2006?
    I signed up. Probably scared some legitimate users away :(


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    #16
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,893 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Overheal wrote: »
    I signed up. Probably scared some legitimate users away :(

    Class of September 2006! o/


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    #17
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Class of September 2006! o/

    Can't be worse than class of September 2001....


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    #18
    The Muppet
    Registered Users Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    Spear wrote: »
    What went wrong in late 2006?

    Mike65 went on Holidays. :)


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    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Class of September 2006! o/
    noob


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    #20
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    How does Boards do financially? Is this a big No No of a question?


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    #21
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    To paraphrase Douglas Adams:
    Boards is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to Boards.


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